Trump, without elaborating, calls FBI texts 'bombshells!'

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called a batch of text messages between two FBI employees “bombshells," though he did not specify what he found significant in the exchanges.

“NEW FBI TEXTS ARE BOMBSHELLS!” the president tweeted.

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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee had released the texts alongside a report on the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. The FBI found in 2016 that she had been sloppy in her handling of classified material but recommended she face no charges.

Republicans have since pointed to the now-public texts between FBI agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page to allege anti-Trump bias at the bureau, which the president's allies say could have influenced the Clinton investigation or the probe into whether any Trump allies helped with Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

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Johnson's report said the text "raises additional questions about the type and extent of President Obama’s personal involvement in the Clinton email scandal and the FBI investigation of it." However, it's not clear that the message referred to the Clinton investigation. It came as the White House was trying to enlist congressional leaders in a public statement of concern about election interference.

The messages also show Strzok and Page discussing an op-ed Comey proposed to discuss Russia's alleged disruption efforts, which the White House vetoed. And they contain extensive discussion of how to respond to lawmakers' criticism of the FBI's handling of the Clinton email probe.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders cited the texts to express alarm over the FBI's handling of its investigations.

“I think it just further shows that there is reason for all of us to have great cause for concern in this process, and we hope that it’s more thoroughly and fully looked at going forward,” Sanders said at Wednesday's press briefing.

Trump has escalated his attacks on the FBI and the Justice Department in recent weeks, accusing them of being biased in their investigations of his campaign and his former presidential campaign foe.

Last month, he called the fact that many of the messages exchanged between Page and Strzok had gone missing “one of the biggest stories in a long time.” The Justice Department subsequently recovered the missing messages.